Shahidi

I. BACKGROUND

In 2012, Ramin Shahidi sued Perfint Healthcare Corporation USA, Perfint Healthcare PVT. LTD. (a foreign company), and Nandakumar Subburaman (the companies’ chief executive officer) to recover approximately $150,000 in unpaid consulting fees for work performed advising defendants on how to develop a surgical software and robotics company. The complaint contained causes of action for reasonable value of services rendered, open book account, intentional misrepresentation, and

We grant plaintiff’s request for judicial notice of the trial court’s October 16,

2018, March 27, 2019, and April 2, 2019, minute orders in this matter. We take judicial notice of the underlying complaint on our own motion. (Evid. Code, §§ 452, subd. (d), 459.) negligent misrepresentation, and also sought punitive damages. The parties appeared through counsel at a trial setting conference in October 2018. Jury trial was set to begin on April 2, 2019, with a settlement conference scheduled for March 27, 2019. Plaintiff served defendants on March 13, 2019 with a notice to appear at trial with documents, including “[a]ll annual financial statements, ledgers, [and] tax returns for each…